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The chess games of IBM’s Deep Blue

Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 15 May, 2008 to the technology subset

The chess games of Deep Blue Slideshow series depicting the chess games IBM "supercomputer" Deep Blue played with chess masters Garry Kasparov, David Bronstein, and Judit Polgar. Deep Blue is a chess computer designed and produced by the computer company IBM. Deep Blue's programming code is written in C and runs under the AIX operating system. It won a game against Garry Kasparov on February 10, 1996, marking the ... Read full entry

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Think Apple: It Boosts Creativity

Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 1 April, 2008 to the design and art subset

Think Apple: It Boosts Creativity Looking at the Apple logo for just 30 milliseconds is more conducive to creative thinking than looking at the IBM logo for the same amount of time. You don't need to be a Mac owner to be a cutting-edge hipster. Turns out just thinking about Apple can make you more creative. That's according to researchers at Duke University and the University of Waterloo, who ... Read full entry

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